There were two things we did in class yesterday.
The first one was practice PWT test.
There were not enough time for me to think and write, but also preparation.
I strongly felt that in those kinds of tests, the form you write matters, but the most important thing is what you write as answers to the questions. Since the questions which will be given at the next PWT are already announced, I should read and understand the texts more thoroughly and lightly make summarize my ideas.
Were there anyone who had enough time yesterday?!
After the test, we watched a documentary film called "This is what democracy looks like". The violent scenes were shocking especially when I saw that it was the police who were doing tear sprays and threatning the protestors. Protestors resisting the police, shouting 'The whole world is watching' and gathering tightly to each other was also impressive. The film also showed how corporations have powers to control the media, to decide what to broadcast.
This topic interested me, so I looked up in the Internet about this protest in Seattle. This protest was in 1999 so it was not easy to find various types of the actual articles written at that time, but there were many websites and blogs making comments about it. The most recent news concerning this protest was that in 2007, a film called 'Battle in Seattle' came out. Through this mini-research, I've also found a volunteer organization where they voluntary collect information and publish articles, focusing also on the facts that mainstream medias don't broadcast. Until Rab introduced this film, I've never considered that deeply about how the media is controlled by sponsors and short discussion in groups made me rethink. Japanese programs, especially news programs, seem to provide entertainment topics rather than politic or worldwide state of affairs probably in order to improve audience ratings. That means, information we get to know is already an outcome of the corporations' choices. Therefore, I decided to check various sources about one news or occurance. It is responsibility of individuals to not to acquire biased information.
Yesterday's class really made me think about many things somehow.
The education of 'critical thinking' is influencing me already......
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